Cognizant balance sheet

At the end of fiscal 2025, Cognizant had total assets of $20.69bn, total liabilities of $5.68bn and shareholders' equity of $15.02bn. It held $1.90bn in cash against $576m of debt: net cash of $1.32bn.

Balance sheet

US$ billions unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Cognizant: balance sheet, annual
Fiscal year	2009Dec 2009	2010Dec 2010	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2015Dec 2015	2016Dec 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMSept 2026
Cash and equivalents	1.1	1.5	1.3	1.6	2.2	2.0	2.1	2.0	1.9	1.2	2.6	2.7	1.8	2.2	2.6	2.2	1.9	1.5
Receivables	0.6	0.9	1.2	1.3	1.6	2.0	2.3	2.6	2.9	3.2	3.3	3.1	3.6	3.8	3.8	4.1	4.4	4.9
Total current assets	2.3	3.5	4.1	4.8	6.1	6.4	7.9	8.6	9.1	8.6	7.6	6.9	7.3	7.3	7.5	7.5	7.8	8.1
Goodwill	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	2.4	2.4	2.6	2.7	3.5	4.0	5.0	5.6	5.7	6.1	7.0	7.1	8.1
Total assets	3.3	4.6	5.5	6.5	8.1	11.5	13.1	14.3	15.2	15.8	16.2	16.9	17.9	17.9	18.5	20.0	20.7	21.3
Accounts payable	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
Deferred revenue (current)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4
Total current liabilities	0.6	0.9	1.2	1.4	1.8	2.6	2.7	2.4	2.8	2.7	3.0	3.5	3.5	3.3	3.3	3.6	3.7	3.6
Short-term debt	—	—	—	—	0.0	0.7	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Long-term debt	—	—	—	—	0.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.9	0.5	1.6
Total debt	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.6	1.3	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.9	0.6	1.6
Total liabilities	0.7	1.0	1.6	1.7	2.0	3.7	3.8	3.5	4.6	4.4	5.2	6.1	5.9	5.5	5.3	5.6	5.7	6.6
Shareholders' equity	2.7	3.6	4.0	4.9	6.1	7.7	9.3	10.7	10.7	11.4	11.0	10.8	12.0	12.3	13.2	14.4	15.0	14.7
Net debt (negative = net cash)	−1.1	−1.5	−1.3	−1.6	−2.2	−0.4	−0.8	−1.2	−1.1	−0.4	−1.9	−2.0	−1.1	−1.5	−2.0	−1.3	−1.3	0.0
Shares outstanding	594m	608m	606m	603m	608m	609m	609m	608m	588m	577m	548m	530m	525m	509m	498m	495m	479m	448m

US$ billions unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Cognizant: balance sheet, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026	2026 Q3Sept 2026
Receivables	4.1	4.2	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.6	4.8	4.9
Total current assets	7.5	7.5	7.6	8.1	7.8	7.8	7.6	8.1
Goodwill	7.0	7.0	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.7	8.1	8.1
Total assets	20.0	20.0	20.2	20.1	20.7	20.5	20.8	21.3
Accounts payable	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4
Deferred revenue (current)	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4
Total current liabilities	3.6	3.4	3.2	3.4	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.6
Short-term debt	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Long-term debt	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.6
Total debt	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.6	1.6
Total liabilities	5.6	5.1	4.9	5.2	5.7	5.4	6.4	6.6
Shareholders' equity	14.4	14.9	15.3	14.9	15.0	15.1	14.5	14.7
Shares outstanding	495m	493m	489m	483m	479m	474m	452m	448m

Balances at each fiscal year end (quarter end in the quarterly view). Total debt is short- plus long-term borrowings, including lease debt where the company reports it within debt. Where assets do not equal liabilities plus shareholders' equity, the difference (non-controlling interests, redeemable preferred shares) is shown on its own line.

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Figures from Cognizant's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 30, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Cognizant.